Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.